Section 45-16-65. Powers and duties of council generally

   The council is vested with the following functions, powers, and responsibilities:

   (1) To make all the necessary rules and regulations to carry out this article;

   (2) To cooperate with and secure the cooperation of every department, agency, or instrumentality of the state government or its political subdivisions in furtherance of the purposes of this article;

   (3) To approve schools and to prescribe minimum qualifications for instructors at approved schools;

   (4) To issue a certificate of certification to any coroner satisfactorily complying with an approved training program;

   (5) To withdraw or suspend the certification of any coroner who has performed or is performing the duties of a coroner in violation of this chapter;

   (6) To do any and all things necessary or convenient to enable it wholly and adequately to perform its duties and to exercise the power granted to it; and

   (7) To prescribe, by rules and regulations, the minimum requirements for curricula and standards composing the initial in-service, advanced, specialized, and continuing training courses for certification.

Code 1981, § 45-16-65, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 797, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 10, § 45; Ga. L. 1990, p. 333, § 3.